BOWDLER-SHARPE, R. (editor). Lloyds Natural History. London: Edward Lloyd, 1896. 15 vols. (of 16). 8

BOWDLER-SHARPE, R. (editor). Lloyds Natural History. London: Edward Lloyd, 1896. 15 vols. (of 16). 8vo (181 x 115mm.) Numerous colour plates. (Toning, occasional minor spotting.) Original maroon cloth to eleven volumes, green cloth to vol. 1 of Bowdler Sharpe’s ‘Birds’, and brown cloth to the other three volumes of the set (wear to spine ends, fading, staining to green cloth). Note: lacking vol. 3 of Kirby’s ‘Butterflies and Moths’. Comprises Richard Lydekker’s ‘Mammals’, ‘Cats’, ‘Marsupials’; Ogilvie-Grant’s ‘British Birds’ (2 vols.); H.O. Forbe’s ‘Monkeys’ (2 vols.); Bowdler-Sharpe’s ‘British Birds’ (4 vols.); and W.F. Kirby’s ‘Butterflies’ (2 vols.) and also Kirby’s ‘Butterflies and Moths’ (2 vols.). – And a further three duplicate volumes (18).